Building Specific Galleries - Dragons Down Under
- Seahorses are a hot commodity! In one year, over 100,000 seahorses were taken from Florida waters and sold overseas for traditional Chinese medicines and the pet trade.
- Seahorses depend on healthy sea grasses, mangroves and reefs.
- Rare sea dragons, such as the weedy and leafy sea dragon live off the coast southern Australia, where cool kelp forests and colorful sponge gardens grow on rocky underwater cliffs.
- Common species include:
- Dwarf seahorse
- Leafy sea dragon
- Pacific trumpetfish
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- Alligator pipefish
- Red flame pipefish
- Weedy sea dragon
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